In July 1918 the Surgeon General sent a group of medical officers to study the severe pneumonias sweeping army camps. Their report covers the causes and clinical features of influenza and measles, cross-infection in the wards, and the pathology and bacteriology of the pneumonias that killed so many soldiers.
A first-hand scientific record of the 1918 pandemic, for historians of medicine and epidemics. Download the free EPUB.